Power outage zaps Black Friday bargain hunters

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Black Friday shoppers in northern Ohio had to leave their bargains behind when a car accident knocked out power at a Walmart.

Black Friday shoppers in northern Ohio had to leave their bargains behind when a car accident knocked out power at a Walmart.

A driver hit a utility pole near the store just before midnight near the town of Port Clinton, along Lake Erie.

Authorities from around the area including police, firefighters and agents from the U.S. Customs & Border Patrol were called in to get hundreds of Black Friday shoppers out of the Walmart.

The State Highway Patrol says the driver who caused the blackout had been drinking and was arrested.

In the Toledo suburb of Oregon, police responded to three separate reports of fighting at a Walmart on Thursday night. One officer tells The Blade newspaper that one of the fights was over towels selling for $1.88.

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